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A Break From The Ordinary…

The site’s been a bit stale recently, so I thought I’d try something else for a change, and bring you a brief hardware review. It’s not something I’m planning to move into majorly, but a piece of hardware caught my eye at a recent LAN and I knew I had to get my hands on it. That piece of hardware was the Plantronics Gamecom 777... [Read more of this review]

UKeSa games and prize fund confirmed

UKeSa have announced both their prize fund and game choices for season 1. Game Choices PC Counter Strike: Source (Valve Corporation) Day of Defeat: Source (Valve Corporation) Counter Strike: Condition Zero (Valve Corporation) Counter Strike 1.6 (Valve Corporation) Team Fortress 2 (Valve Corporation) Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Blizzard Entertainment) Call... [Read more of this review]

What makes a good eSports game?

Over at UGame.net I’ve written an article on what makes a good eSports game. Here is an excerpt: The gameplay throughout these genres is so contrasting it is impossible to draw similarities across all of them. The only real consistency throughout them all from a gameplay perspective, is that the games must allow for a wide level of skill, meaning... [Read more of this review]

The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Gaming

Guest writer Richard “Dr. Gonzo” Lewis looks forward in gaming after the death of CGS, and analyses what we have in store. The death of the Championship Gaming Series seems to have been misinterpreted by a lot of people. There has been a lot of doom and gloom around e-sports in general and people seem to think that this is the end; a death... [Read more of this review]

I hate to say “I told you so”, but…

Vini “ViniH” Holden takes a look back at The CGS and it’s impact on the CS:Source scene. Up until about an hour ago I had been slowly composing an opinion piece with the working title “The CGS: A Critical Review of its Impact on Competitive CSS”. The piece tried to be as objective as possible but the basic premise and conclusions... [Read more of this review]

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